From USA Today bestselling author Freya Sampson comes a swoon-worthy, high-concept romance that begs the question: what if your book boyfriend jumped from the pages of their story and into your life?
Meet Zoe Knight, a romance lover and struggling writer who has sworn off men following a disastrous break-up. Once a firm believer in happily ever after, she now curbs her loneliness by imagining her very own meet-cutes with the best boyfriends in literature. And for Zoe, there is no better book boyfriend than Mr. Darcy. So when she stumbles into a classic London bookshop and argues with the annoyingly hot owner, Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of a dusty copy of Pride & Prejudice abandoned on a top shelf.
But unbeknownst to her, this is no ordinary, well-loved copy of her favorite Austen novel.
After reading from the pages on a dirty London bus, Zoe finds herself in an impossible situation: she has accidentally summoned Mr. Darcy to the real world and is now face-to-face with the man she’s been in love for as long as she can remember. Mr. Darcy has always been there for her on the page, through the toughest moments of her life, but can he ever be as good IRL as in the novel? And if he’s here, in the real world, what will happen to the literary world he came from? With Nick (the last man she could ever be prevailed upon to work with) urging her to send the fictional Darcy back to his own story, Zoe will have to decide what she really wants from a happy ending, before it’s too late…
